What is it about conformity itself that causes us all to require it of our neighbors and of our artists and then, with consummate fickleness, to forget those who fall into line and eternally celebrate those who do not?

Being an artist is not only what you do, but how you live your life.

The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.

Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.

Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.